We are looking for partners to work on a proposal on the quantification of costs and risk factors for the spread of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia in the pastoral areas of East Africa. We are most interested in partners from Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Europe.
Dr. Joshua Onono
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The Phytomedicine Programme is an established Research Niche Area of the National Research Foundation in South Africa. We work on the use of plant extracts or isolated compounds to treat infectious diseases caused by microorganisms or parasites in animal health and production. This entails both ethnoveterinary work and increasing productivity in livestock. Our strong [...]
Blue Ventures is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to marine conservation, environmental education and sustainable socio-economic development in Madagascar.
Since 2003, Blue Ventures has partnered with local villages in southwest Madagascar to protect the marine resources local communities rely upon for subsistence and income. Blue Ventures launched the first long-term coral reef, fisheries and socioeconomic monitoring programme [...]
Dr. Adegoke is an award winning environmental scientist whose research focuses on understanding the relationships between changing land surface processes and diverse indicators of environmental change. He uses climate diagnostic tools, satellite remote sensing, and regional climate models to investigate these interactions at local and regional scales. Dr. Adegoke is a faculty member in the [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture (National Agricultural Research Institute) in Eritrea is mandated to conduct agricultural researches in horticulture, livestock and environments in Eritrea. I have been working in sweet potato as animal feed. I am looking a partner expertise in sweet potato and/or animal nutrition.
Tewdros Tsehaye Ghebremaraim
Ministry of Agriculture (National Agricultural Research Institute), Eritrea
ttsehaye@yahoo.com
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I am interested in partners for research in renewable energy systems and/or application of ICT to enhance renewable energy technologies development, design and dissemination. my main foci are solar and wind energies.
Abel Niyibizi
Kyambogo University, Uganda
http://niyibizia.easysites.ug
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Background information
The issues of deforestation, the major cause for desertification, such as its adverse social-economic environmental impacts in Africa and the steps to combat the same have been receiving serious attention of the world community. The World Conference on Desertification, UNEP, Nairobi 1972; the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janero, 1992; and [...]
